[3.3.2] Compiling fails under Ubuntu 11.10

[raycluster]

Hi

I tried to compile version 3.3.2 of Angband under Ubuntu 11.10, but it wont work. (downloaded it here)

First I installed all necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install autoconf gcc libc6-dev libncurses5-dev libx11-dev \
             libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev \
             libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev

Then I ran:

./configure --prefix=$HOME

[...]

Configuration:

  Install path:                           /home/raycluster
  binary path:                            /home/raycluster/games
  config path:                            /home/raycluster/etc/angband/
  lib path:                               /home/raycluster/share/angband/
  var path:                               (not used)
  (with private save and score files in ~/.angband/Angband/)

-- Frontends --
- Curses                                  Yes
- GTK 2.x                                 Disabled
- X11                                     Yes
- SDL                                     Disabled
- Test                                    No
- Stats                                   No

- SDL sound                               Yes

But when I try to make the project I get this error while linking:

make

[...]

[B]/usr/bin/ld: snd-sdl.o: undefined reference to symbol 'SDL_GetError'[/B]
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'SDL_GetError' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück [german for: ld returns 1 as end-status]
make[3]: *** [angband] Fehler 1 [german 'Fehler' = error]
make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Fehler 1
make: *** [all] Fehler 1

make install of course returns a error too after that.

Can you help me compile it? The version in the Ubuntu repositories is outdated.

[Magnate]

Ah. d_m also has an Ubuntu build problem - though his is with ncurses rather than SDL. But I do wonder if something in Ubuntu is borked. I don't see that problem building on Debian (which should have most of the same packages as Ubuntu).

[raycluster]

Mhh can you build 3.3.2 for me on a debian? Don't feel like installing a virtual machine, just for this program

[Magnate]

Mhh can you build 3.3.2 for me on a debian? Don't feel like installing a virtual machine, just for this program

Here's one I prepared earlier. But you'll also need this.

[raycluster]

Wow, thank you so much
Works like a charm.

[Magnate]

Wow, thank you so much
Works like a charm.

Excellent! Now to get it into Debian ....

[raycluster]

Now to get it into Debian ....

What do you mean?

[Magnate]

What do you mean?

I'm not authorised to upload those debs to the Debian archive, so I need a "sponsor" to do that for me. I had one for 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, but lost touch when he moved jobs. 3.2.0 was uploaded to Debian about six months after release because I didn't have a sponsor - I now have another one and I'm waiting for him to QA the packages you downloaded. Once he's happy, they'll go into Debian (and then eventually through to Ubuntu).

[raycluster]

What about Ubuntu? Can you upload it to it's reps? Or are they the same?

[Magnate]

What about Ubuntu? Can you upload it to it's reps? Or are they the same?

Well, I'm only the Ubuntu maintainer by default really - I don't know anything about Ubuntu. All I know is that a few weeks after a new version appears in Debian, it gets automatically ported/uploaded to Ubuntu. Since my main interest is in getting it into Debian, I've never worried about uploading directly to Ubuntu.

Besides, my new sponsor pointed out a couple of packaging errors in the ones you downloaded, so I'm having to repackage it anyway. He seems quite responsive, so maybe it will go in quite soon.

[ViJay]

Having read this, i tried to compile V3.3.2 on my Ubuntu 11.10.

-- Frontends --
- Curses No; missing libraries
- GTK 2.x Disabled
- X11 Yes
- SDL Disabled
- Test No
- Stats No

- SDL sound No; missing libraries

It compiled without problems. (./configure ; make ; make install)

Something definitely seems wrong with the SDL.

[Magnate]

Something definitely seems wrong with the SDL.

How do you mean? You didn't configure it to build SDL - you need to run

./configure --enable-sdl

to do that.

[ViJay]

What i mean is that if you compile without the SDL, it compiles without problem. If you (like raycluster) get the SDL packages and compile (based on the errormessages raycluster inlcuded) the libsdl seems to be the problem.

Or did you mean to say raycluster forgot to ./configure --enable-sdl ??

[Magnate]

What i mean is that if you compile without the SDL, it compiles without problem. If you (like raycluster) get the SDL packages and compile (based on the errormessages raycluster inlcuded) the libsdl seems to be the problem.

Or did you mean to say raycluster forgot to ./configure --enable-sdl ??

No - I hadn't realised that you had gone on to compile under SDL and found raycluster's problem - or were at least theorising that that would happen.

Judging from raycluster's posts, it doesn't look like the problem is specific to SDL - but it would be good if s/he can confirm whether it builds without SDL configured.

In other news, Angband 3.3.2 has just been uploaded to Debian Sid (unstable). So it should be in Wheezy (testing) in ten days, and in Ubuntu after that. Yay!

[dionysian]

Unfortunately it has still not made it into Ubuntu..